Making a release on GitHub

Today's journey is using `git` and `github` to *release* **PwshBlog**
The following are my notes on the matter.

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Making an archive
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Normally when you make a release, you want to make an archive of the release
available for people to download. You could use git's built-in tags feature
alone, but that will include other bits of your repository that you probably
don't want to include.

Enter `git archive`

The following are steps to creating the archive

1. Create a `.gitattributes` file
2. Add lines like the following

            .gitignore export-ignore
            appveyor.yml export-ignore

3. Add and commit the `.gitattributes` file for it to work
4. Create a tag

            git tag -a v0.9.0

5. Now create the archive

            git archive --format=zip --prefix=PwshBlog/ v0.9.0 -o v0.9.0.zip

6. Go create your release on github and drag in the created archive!

Tags: git, pwshblog, github